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Need a Prestige TV Drama? Better Call Saul!
My favorite part about watching so-called "prestige" television is the conversation that it engenders. Not just in terms of the social media response (and all the jokes, memes, hypotheses, and tasseographies that are so integral to that response), but also the experience of catching up with friends the next day to talk about what you liked and Read more [...]
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Posted in Columns, Miscellaneous, Ryan
Tagged Better Call Saul, breaking bad, TV
The Uncertainty Principle
Heisenberg is speeding down the highway in his dull-green Pontiac Aztek when a cop pulls him over. The cop walks up to his car and says, "Excuse me, sir, but do you know how fast you were going?" Heisenberg responds, "No ... but I know EXACTLY where I am!"
Okay, so maybe you don't get the joke, yet (you will in a minute). In fact, you might Read more [...]
Posted in Columns, Creative Writing, Ryan
Tagged breaking bad, Change, criticism, uncertainty
Breaking Down Breaking Bad: To’Hajiilee
The episode titled "To'Hajiilee" that aired this past Sunday is arguably the greatest episode of the show's run (so far - we don't yet know what's to come); Vince Gilligan even said that he thought of all the show's cliff-hangers, of which there are many, this would be the one about which the audience would be most distraught. He was not wrong. Read more [...]
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Posted in Columns, Josh, Miscellaneous, Video
Tagged breaking bad, Change, childhood, oedipus complex, walt whitman
The Anxiety of Being Influenced
For a long time, I was pretty much against watching any serialized television show as the program was being released. Essentially, I would do my best to avoid watching any series that had yet to broadcast its ultimate finale. Unless the conclusion had already aired, no dice.
There were three real impetuses for this strategy, the first purely Read more [...]
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Tagged breaking bad, criticism, purple, south park, the wire, thrones